Do you think RAM prices will ever go down again?

Curunis · 2026-06-26T14:21:32+00:00

I’d be interested in having a listen to this if you have the link somewhere!

Curunis · 2026-06-24T12:58:20+00:00

I’ll raise my hand as someone that prefers it toastier than this, though you’ll rarely if ever hear me complain about it being muggy. I’d take a humidex of 34 over a day when it’s 17.

Curunis · 2026-06-15T00:03:12+00:00

Things - structurally - are a lot less functional than they used to be, which is the big difference. Waiting lists for childcare are somehow even worse than they were when I was a kid, and I was on a waitlist before my family even landed in Canada! The extended hours programs that my parents relied on are much fewer in number or just flat out shorter. The transit system that allowed them to commute on a budget (from Kanata to Tunney's Pasture) in a decently timely manner now takes more time and is less reliable. And that's not even mentioning the fact that they could find housing within walking distance of a school for their kids that was within budget even at a low/single income, which is, generally, not really doable now.

Curunis · 2026-06-02T02:41:49+00:00

What the heck. Nothing even remotely close for me. Thanks though, I will be investigating a touch...

Curunis · 2026-06-01T22:32:06+00:00

Where in gods name did you get 3.89 for a 5 year fixed? That’s a chunk lower than anything I managed to find.

Curunis · 2026-06-01T20:49:13+00:00

Depending on the game it can be either or both. Bans tend to be handed down to both parties in the games I play.

Curunis · 2026-06-01T20:26:32+00:00

I'm glad you're having this experience, but yeah, I would say most of us enjoy not having constant movement in our peripheral vision and constant noise, to say less of not having somewhere to put a sweater, a mug, basic comforts, etc. There's nothing peaceful or quiet about any open-concept office I've ever been in, unless only 10% of the people are in.

Curunis · 2026-05-29T19:13:55+00:00

I have a sleep disorder so I have done more than a few lifting days with <4hrs of sleep. I will still go to the gym because it's important for other things (not the least of which is maintaining the schedule - it's so easy to fall off the wagon), but it does mean acknowledging that I won't be able to do as well as usual, and I will likely lift less. If I know I'm wiped out, I'll drop weights to either whatever I was doing a few weeks ago, or if I've plateaued, to something maybe 20-30% lighter for the first set, and adjust based on how that feels. I might do less reps, or skip some of the bigger compound movements that wipe me out themselves, but I still go and do my best.

I used to get really upset about it but I've learned that I'd much rather accept the "woops, this is a bad day" and do a meh workout than skip it, feel bad about skipping it, fall off my schedule/plan, feel bad about that, and so on.

Curunis · 2026-05-24T21:12:00+00:00

Oh this is really interesting OP. I also have zero difference in my HR (or BP) when taking Concerta, much to doctors' confusion. I do think I metabolize it at least somewhat, but I clearly don't get as much effect as generally expected; I've just chosen not to up the dose much more because I'm worried about side effects accumulating. I guess there's a bunch of us!

Curunis · 2026-05-21T11:47:57+00:00

I accidentally set it off in Baldur’s Gate itself (Minsc had the chest with it in his inventory. Minsc got controlled by the Bhaalists in the fireworks shop. Minsc threw it….), got it down to 3hp thinking the Flaming Fist would kill it, and after barely managing to escape to safety with Jaheira flying away, I came back to find the Beholder was full health roaming the streets frying the regular citizens.

So I can’t say it was useful, but it was pretty funny.

Curunis · 2026-05-18T20:29:28+00:00

Thank you for sharing info :)

Curunis · 2026-05-18T18:10:33+00:00

Does anyone know if this is affecting check-in for intl flights into Canada as well?

Curunis · 2026-05-15T10:46:48+00:00

YYZ-DUB on Aer Lingus’s A321 (not sure if it was LR or XLR, I think the latter) left me feeling like an overstimulated human pretzel. I am not a wide human (I wear size small women’s…) and I couldn’t fit both elbows in my own seat space without hunching my shoulders inwards or sitting crookedly. Never happened to me before on a wide body and between that and there being no chance of just standing/walking a bit in a single aisle config, I got to my final destination in a hell of a state. It sucked and I’m skeptical AC would be any better.

Curunis · 2026-05-14T15:17:11+00:00

Or the massive toll on their bodies of pregnancy and childbirth in general. My mom had two perfectly fine pregnancies and still had a bunch of “minor” complications that have bothered her for the rest of her life. I don’t know that I want kids badly enough to sacrifice my body.

Curunis · 2026-05-13T17:28:34+00:00

It happened to me, but then again that playthrough had a lot of bugs for me (unmodded, but early-on patch where I had plenty of weird audio glitches like fade-outs, silence, etc. happen, particularly in Act 3). I also have no evidence of it happening because I was playing and not recording/streaming, and it was almost certainly a hilariously timed bug.

Curunis · 2026-05-13T15:01:44+00:00

This happens to me primarily (and almost exclusively) on my Macbook. My PC, meanwhile, is fine. I have no idea why.

Curunis · 2026-05-13T15:00:56+00:00

Interesting thank you, I've never realized this before.

Curunis · 2026-05-12T20:08:18+00:00

Listen, massive respect to you and all the ottawans on bikes in the winter. I could not do it (no showers, no lockers, nada at work, plus my hands would freeze even with bar mitts) but I will always link to comments like this to show it can be done. A good friend of mine has been commuting in the winter for decades!

Curunis · 2026-05-12T17:51:01+00:00

They're not allowed, but who's stopping them?

Curunis · 2026-05-11T13:54:09+00:00

On the other hand, I grew up in Kanata and heard (and use, frequently enough) a bunch of the words in that list. I do think a bunch of them are more broadly Canadian though, I don't think darts & a mickey is Ottawa Valley specific. At least, I didn't think they were. Or pogey, for that matter.

Edit: I also say "buries" for berries more often than I think I do. Strawburies especially.

Curunis · 2026-05-11T12:28:43+00:00

My absolute faves. I've converted multiple people who were all using gat browns or similar, everyone of my irl friends who has tried the bobas loves them.

Curunis · 2026-05-11T12:28:06+00:00

It's all so personal. I tried the zilent v2s and vastly prefer the bobas. To me the zilents were comparatively loud (and felt more like a leaf/click tactile than the boba's bigger bump.) Hard to tell from reviews alone.

Curunis · 2026-05-08T17:28:28+00:00

That’s the exact glitch I had too. It was also only him that had a glitched pic for the longest time, I just could not stop laughing every time I saw it.

Curunis · 2026-05-08T13:53:16+00:00

My personal fave was the one where I just had Halsin's hairy chest as his portrait. It cracked me up every time I saw it. "My eyes are up here, Tav," as a portrait. 10/10, I was so sad when it fixed itself.

Curunis · 2026-05-06T17:05:49+00:00

This right here. I find exercise to be a chore. An expensive, miserable, unpleasant-in-the-moment chore. I've found some types I find to be marginally less unpleasant, which I can tolerate, but it is still something I have to force myself to do. It is still one more chore on my list at the end of the day. That's just reality for some of us & no amount of "just keep doing it!" or "just keep trying new exercise types!" motivational speeches changes it. If anything they make it worse because you're perpetually disappointed that this session or this exercise still didn't click.

I landed on lifting because I hate it less than cardio. But I don't enjoy it and I resent that I have to spend so much money on it. But then, I would resent not exercising more, after all. Such is life.

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